And you have not truly lived until you have eaten salted and fried fatback or hog jowls.

But how do you improve on pig meat? You serve it thicker, with more layers, and cut it from the back of a sacred swine! So for a sublime religious experience, you must enjoy the Korean dish of marbled hog meat. See the pic below:

Essentially, the dish I am describing is a thicker and heartier version of bacon that Koreans enjoy as a meal in itself. The "common" variety, samgyeopsal (&#49340;&#44217;&#49332;), actually means "three layers" or, in my Shakespearian transliterator, "thrice marbled swine". You typically sit down to a do-it-yourself griddle and fry up the delectables with a compliment of sliced garlic. When ready, you deposit them in a rolled up perilla leaf (&#44648;&#45794;) and chow down. The usual array of side dishes for such a meal includes green chilies, onions, tofu, red pepper paste, and, of course, kimchi. It is a nice, spicy and hearty helping of hog. Mm-m-good.

But the real manly version, the one I pictured above is ogyeopsal (&#50724;&#44217;&#49332;). Clocking in at a whopping five mutha-fuckin' layers, its flavor will massage your tongue in ways that would embarrass even the most hardened sixteen year old varsity cheerleader. (I will wait while you go back to the picture and count the little layers of piggy delight. Go ahead.) This five-layer dish is supremely special because it can only be produced by the rare Black Pig of Jeju Island. Otherwise known as the ddongdwegi (&#46629;&#46076;&#51648;), or shit-hog, this rare breed of beast was once an ordinary pink domestic pig - but after being transplanted to the resource poor volcanic island Jeju, it turned black over time from being fed refuse. See below:

And that's the real scoop!

If we keep the bacon angle rolling, I might start going on about fried hog-heads in the mountains of Colombia or jerk pork in Kingston. Join my army, see the world, and eat pork from every corner of the planet!

joydivision Wrote:
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> have you ever tasted pork ears? it is quite
> popular here in portugal!
> plus many other stuff!
> people love pork here!
> you would love it! it ain´t stuff for sissys!

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

Oh man I love the pig bits falling in the background of the 2nd picture.
-Mason

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

I had something very similar in a Korean restaraunt. Unfortunately it did not taste good, and I have an adventurous palette.
-Mason

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

mcfitch Wrote:
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> I had something very similar in a Korean
> restaurant. Unfortunately it did not taste good,
> and I have an adventurous palette.
> -Mason

Gcrush Wrote:
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> mcfitch Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I had something very similar in a Korean
> > restaurant. Unfortunately it did not taste
> good,
> > and I have an adventurous palette.
> > -Mason
>
>
> Do you remember what it was called?

Unfortunately it was just "Korean Sausage" in English on the menu. The menu was written 95% in Korean with 1 or 2 words in enlish per item.
-Mason

Edit: Having looked it up the next day I'm fairly certain it was this Soonday:
[www.recipesource.com]

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

mcfitch Wrote:
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> Unfortunately it was just "Korean Sausage" in
> English on the menu. The menu was written 95% in
> Korean with 1 or 2 words in enlish per item.
> -Mason
>
> Edit: Having looked it up the next day I'm fairly
> certain it was this Soonday:
> [www.recipesource.com]
> rec0063.html

Yeah, that's probably what you had. The quality or taste of sundae (&#49692;&#45824;) varies depending on the mixture of ingredients and how it was cooked (pan fried, steamed, or boiled). Sounds like you had a bad batch. Then again, it is basically just a variation on chitlins - and if you don't like thems, then you probably wouldn't ever enjoy sundae.

Whilst in Jaeju Island one afternoon, I sampled some Korean seafood sausage. Squid, fish parts, roe, and noodles stuffed into pig guts and boiled in a light broth. I would love to tell you how arful it was, but the truth is I was mostly overwhelmed by how plain it tasted. It might as well have been British food. Meh.

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

"Soap can be made from just about any kind of fat. Even though fat from bacon, called lard, isn't the finest of fats to use for making soap, it somehow seemed to be the most exciting. Why? Because bacon is amazing. It has an almost mystical power to it and is a food that can be craved to almost no end. I figured what better way use the extra grease I had from cooking bacon then to turn it into soap!"

Hey, I make MY bacon sandwiches with a more robust grainy bread..not some of that girly generic Butternut crap. That way I'll at LEAST have some fiber in there with my porcine goodness as it rolls into my lower intestine forming a secondarily delicious bolus!

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

When I was very young, we visited a friend's farm in Virginia where they kept pigs and chickens. I adored the little chicks as they hopped around and peeped at me. When we went over to the adjoining pig pen, a couple of chicks wandered in with us. The farmer didn't notice, and he probably would have done something about it if he did, because as I stared in horror, one of the pigs walked over to the chicks and literally inhaled them.

Little know facts. Pigs will eat anything. Let me reference a story that my wife tells of a relative who lost his life by getting drunk and falling into a pig pen in the middle of the night. Needless to say what was left of him was found in the morning...Did I mention that this happened in the Philippines...Maybe the pigs are more vicious there.

fel9 Wrote:
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> Little know facts. Pigs will eat anything. Let me
> reference a story that my wife tells of a relative
> who lost his life by getting drunk and falling
> into a pig pen in the middle of the night.
> Needless to say what was left of him was found in
> the morning...Did I mention that this happened in
> the Philippines...Maybe the pigs are more vicious
> there.

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Matthewalt &quot;I actually kinda LIKE that approach! You know: let's make a TOY. Remember those? Products designed to be played with without breaking? DO YOU REMEMBER, LOVE?!&quot;

It was actually a bunch of pigs.
And as far as taste one would assume that they tasted just as good as any other pig...just meaner and more vicious

mcfitch Wrote:
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> Don't keep us in suspense. How did that
> particular pig taste?
> -Mason
>
> fel9 Wrote:
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> -----
> > Little know facts. Pigs will eat anything. Let
> me
> > reference a story that my wife tells of a
> relative
> > who lost his life by getting drunk and falling
> > into a pig pen in the middle of the night.
> > Needless to say what was left of him was found
> in
> > the morning...Did I mention that this happened
> in
> > the Philippines...Maybe the pigs are more
> vicious
> > there.

Meet the pancake sandwich: two pancakes, two fried eggs (over easy!), and four slices of bacon! Smother with fake whipped vegetable fat butter and hi-fructose corn syrup maple flavoring! Slides down smooth, plugs up good! Guaranteed to make a man out of even the most feeble bodied androgynous twig!

ChrisM Wrote:
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> Eggs over easy??? Ha! What you NEED is to have
> those eggs over HARD!!! and replace those
> pancakes with WAFFLES.
>
> plus a deep-fried stick of butter.
>
> MMMMMMMM.........deep-fried stick of butter.....
>
> now THAT's a manly breakfast!

I will try that next year after I have recovered from Sunday's Revenge.

this thread is still going?
now you want to talk about manly food eh...

have you ever tasted this:

it is called "rojões"!
you cut pieces of pork a bit like squares and then you place it in a big pan with lots bacon fat that has been previously heated so it is liquified.
and whats better is that you can make a lot of it because it stays fresh and juicy for days becuase of the fat!
and usually it is even deep fried after!
and it is served with fried potatoes!